Installing a network drive on the DL380 G7

[chickenandchips]

Hello All,

Apologies in advance if this might seem a very basic question as my knowledge of VMWare\VSphere 4.1 is limited.

I had alook at the following article which explains how to install a driver on our new physical host.

http://www.wooditwork.com/2010/11/15/updating-broadcom-bnx2x-nic-drivers-with-powercli/

1. I downloaded and installed the Vsphere 4.1 power CLI tools on my local PC

2. The driver is in a local folder on my PC in C:\citrix\Intel\t-igb-400.3.1.17-1vmw.2.17.249663.x86_64.vib

My question is from the CLI command line what command do I need to use to connect to the Vcentre ?

What power CLI command do I use to install the driver ? from what I understand I uset the Install-VMHostPatch but I cant seem to workout the exact syntax to do this ?

Many thanks for your assistance

[chickenandchips]

Guys,

I did try using the following command syntax

Connect-VIServer -Server 192.168.200.1 -Protocol https -User root -Password passwordgoeshere

but when I do get the following error message and it doesnt appear to connect.

Connect-VIServer : 2/14/2012 11:10:39    Connect-VIServer        Could not conn
ect using the requested protocol.
At line:1 char:17
+ Connect-VIServer <<<<  -Server rcvmman01.RCNET.AC.UK -Protocol http -User roo
t -Password xxxxx

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Connect-VIServer], ViServer
   ConnectionException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_ConnectivityServiceImpl_Reconnect_Proto
   colError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer

[BharatR]

Hi,

1. I downloaded and installed the Vsphere 4.1 power CLI tools on my local PC

Confirm which is the ESX/ESXi version you are using ?b'cos power CLI works on ESXi 5.0